Help me do the comma

[robvalue]

Sure, a case could be made for that, probably that is better.

You're out nativing a native! Stop it

[One Above All]

How's your math, OP?

[c172]

I was all thinking the comma was some sort of dance. I was like, "AF Dance Partay!"

[Longhorn]

Commas are fine, but I hate dots

[Joods]

Why commas are important:
They can be life saving

Let's eat grandpa.
Let's eat, grandpa.

[Jenny A]

OP [use a comma after the name of a person you are addressing],

I'm not sure if you really want the rules, which I think you are really just trying to excuse yourself from [set off parenthetical asides with commas], but the rules really aren't all that hard.  But if you are writing on a forum like this one [use a comma after a conditional phrase)], I don't think your comma usage matters all that much.  Proper usage is helpful when you are, making a formal argument, writing a formal paper, writing to your Aunt May, writing a business letter, or writing to snarky people like me [use a comma between items in a series].   Educated, intellectual, uppity, grammarians [separate lists of adjectives which have a unified meaning with commas]  do care about commas, little basement-dwelling posters [but don't separate unrelated adjectives]  might not.

[Longhorn]

Proper usage is helpful when you are, making a formal argument, writing a formal paper, writing to your Aunt May, writing a business letter, or writing to snarky people like me [use a comma between items in a series].   

There shouldn't be a comma here

Educated, intellectual, uppity, grammarians [separate lists of adjectives which have a unified meaning with commas]  do care about commas, little basement-dwelling posters [but don't separate unrelated adjectives]  might not.

Or here

[Exian]

I'm going to secretly follow this thread, and reap the benefits of Goon's bravery. Muahahaa,aaa,

I just fucking throw commas around like they're free. Then there are semi-colons, colons, and the word "however". Fuck them. I'll restructure a whole paragraph to avoid ";however," or ",however;" however that's supposed to go.

[Ben Davis]

I put them such that the text subjectively has a nice flow to it and, more importantly, that logically distinct parts are separated and there are no ambiguities in meaning.

Hi OP,

Above is an example of when a comma is optional: following a conjunction (in this case, "and,"), there's no necessity for a comma however many people add one when they want to emphasise the subsequent 'subordinate clause' (the bit in between the commas). This is a use of The Oxford Comma, named after the Oxford University Press, which was used in two ways:

1. before the word 'and' at the end of a list
2. after a conjunction, for emphasis (to make it read like you would vocalise emphasis)

Hope that's clear.

[Alex K]

Ben Davis,
do I have to do both 1.) and 2.) in order to be consistent? In my above sentence, putting them before and after the "and" as in
"has a nice flow to it, and, more importantly, that ..."
looks excessive to me

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Proper usage is helpful when you are, making a formal argument, writing a formal paper, writing to your Aunt May, writing a business letter, or writing to snarky people like me [use a comma between items in a series].   

There shouldn't be a comma here

Educated, intellectual, uppity, grammarians [separate lists of adjectives which have a unified meaning with commas]  do care about commas, little basement-dwelling posters [but don't separate unrelated adjectives]  might not.

Or here